What is the Public Domain?

In the 'Public Domain' is to do with intellectual property and copyright laws.
If something is in the public domain it means that it’s not ‘owned’ by anyone and therefore has no legal restriction to use.

Selection of websites for Public Domain media

Images (photos, art, and clipart)


www.freefoto.com
www.photos8.com/
www.burningwell.org/
www.public-domain-photos.com/
www.wpclipart.com/
www.morguefile.com/
www.publicdomainpictures.net/
www.acliparthistory.com/
www.public-domain-photos.com/free-cliparts/
www.openclipart.org/
www.reusableart.com/


Music
www.musopen.com
www.pdmusic.org/
www.publicdomain4u.com/
www.imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page - sheet music

Books
[stanza]

Much public domain material exists - search ‘public domain’ in Google

(Check the media licencing on sites such as Wikipedia to see if it is public domain)




Free Music - but check licencing
http://www.last.fm/
http://www.archive.org/details/opensource_audio
http://stereogum.com/
http://www.dogmazic.net/index.php?op=edito&choice_user_language=English
http://www.jamendo.com/en/